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We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.
John Wesley Powell
Ride
Walls
Unknown
Channel
Distance
Run
River
Over
Know
Well
Falls
Rocks
May
Explore
Conjecture
Many
Things
In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.
Catherine the Great
Politics
Guided
Ruler
Circumstances
Must
Capable
Conjecture
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
William Hazlitt
You
Travel
World
Having
More
Road
Know
Than
Conjecture
Descriptions
Traveled
A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.
David Brainerd
Future
Nature
Spiritual
Man
Soul
Few
State
Athens
Some
Had
Faint
Geniuses
Discoveries
Existence
Probable
Human
Rome
Formed
Conjecture
Human Soul
Designed
It seems likely that Jesus, being a scholarly young man, learned some Hebrew, but that's conjecture. It's more likely that Jesus spoke some Greek, as this language dominated the region after the conquests of Alexander the Great in the fourth century.
Jay Parini
Great
Man
Language
Young
Alexander
Some
Seems
More
Scholarly
Spoke
Likely
Learned
Dominated
Greek
Being
After
Hebrew
Young Man
Region
Century
Conjecture
Jesus
Fourth
You can't know what the future holds, though you might conjecture on it, and if you're psychic, you might venture a guess.
Jonathan Raymond
Future
You
Psychic
Guess
Though
Know
Venture
Holds
Might
Conjecture
The Temple of Diana is in the vicinity of the fountain, which has given rise to the conjecture that it originally constituted a portion of the ancient baths.
Marguerite Gardiner
Baths
Ancient
Temple
Rise
Given
Diana
Vicinity
Which
Conjecture
Originally
Portion
Fountain
Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.
Paul Davies
Life
Nothing
Solid
Plenty
Scenarios
Support
Scientists
Stories
Experimental
Theory
Conjecture
Origin
Agreed
Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
Walter Pater
Experience
Personality
Group
Way
Only
Voice
Through
Pierced
Without
Reduced
Real
Impressions
Wall
Which
Us
Conjecture
Each
Round
Thick
Each One
Ever
In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.
William Gilbert
Stronger
Argument
Secret
Philosophical
Hidden
Investigation
Obtained
Sort
Sure
Opinions
Causes
Discovery
Than
Probable
Common
Experiments
Conjecture
Reasons
Things
If there are other worlds elsewhere in the universe, I would conjecture they are governed by the same laws of natural selection.
Richard Dawkins
Natural
Universe
Other
Worlds
Elsewhere
Would
Laws
Selection
Governed
Same
Natural Selection
Conjecture
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